Examples

In one of his "Just So Stories," Kipling suggested the leopard got its spots because the animal moved to an environment "'sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows."

This Victorian architectural gem almost certainly didn't need gussying-up with big, bold designer wallpaper and stripy carpets, and I never want to listen to Lily Allen cover the Kaiser Chiefs while I eat.

Cox and Forshaw encourage the reader to imagine how a succession of bullet-like particles could build up an interference pattern—a worthwhile exercise "because it's futile, and a few hours of brain-racking should convince you that a stripy pattern is inconceivable."